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Disk Cloning File Systems System upgrades
Disks Installation

  Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999

  Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999
Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000
Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000
Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001
Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002
Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios 13 Mar 2010
ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010
ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010

  Samba - connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft  18 Oct 1998
swap files - how to get more swap space 1 Nov 1998
Samba - more on passwords/logon and shares 3 Nov 1998
Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 Nov 1998
NTFS Driver for FreeBSD 8 Jan 1999
Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999
Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999
Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999
Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999
Allowing anonymous FTP 10 Jun 1999
Filesystem is not clean - run fsck 20 Jun 1999
out of inodes 5 Jul 1999
vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999
rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
symbolic links which are difficult to remove 18 Jan 2000
NFS - sharing file systems across a network 19 Feb 2000
Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000
drive to drive backup 8 May 2000
Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000
Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000
Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000
Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000
NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered 27 Jun 2000
Quotas - installation and configuration (by James) 23 Jul 2000
file system full 1 Sep 2000
mounting an ISO image 2 Sep 2000
Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000
uptime, w, and who show nobody logged in 2 Nov 2000
Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001
Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001
Growing your filesystem with growfs (by Will Andrews) 19 Aug 2002
Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002
mknod - create the device, then mount 5 Jan 2004
What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005
Card reader for FreeBSD 10 Apr 2006
Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007
c partition goes away in FreeBSD 8 22 Nov 2009
ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010
ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010
ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011

  Installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 machine 14 Mar 1999
Installing PPP 15 Mar 1999
Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999
Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999
Installing PPP - alias 24 Mar 1999
Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999
Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999
Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999
How to build a gateway 5 Jul 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
FreeBSD on a laptop (by Chris Silva) 12 Jan 2000
Installing FreeBSD via PLIP - (the parallel port - good for laptops) 23 Feb 2000
Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000
Installing cvsup 6 May 2000
New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000
Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000
Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000
Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000
The make-world script 30 Jul 2000
Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000
Installing via wireless NIC 21 May 2001
Checklist for a new box 12 Jan 2002
Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002
Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005
PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007

  upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998
upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999
mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999
/etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999
Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999
Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999
Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999
Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999
Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999
Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999
What is installed? 6 Jun 1999
Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999
how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999
Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999
proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999
unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999
Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000
Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000
Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001
Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002
Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005